App Tries to Stick It to Gov’t Spying by ‘Flooding the Internet With Red Flag Key Wor

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App Tries to Stick It to Gov’t Spying by ‘Flooding the Internet With Red Flag Key Words’

Sep. 28, 2013 11:19am Liz Klimas
There are certain keywords in electronic communications that the government, law enforcement and spy agencies might watch for. But in light of recent domestic spying, which privacy advocates feel far overstepped its legal bounds, one app is hoping to turn these keywords against the government.Flagger is a browser add-on with the intention of “flooding the Internet with red flag keywords,” like bomb or Taliban.
The point of Flagger, created by Jeff Lyon, is theoretically to send the NSA “a collectively powerful statement through the individual free-speech messages that each user can send out.”Flagger is a new app that is trying to, at least in theory, make the NSA’s job harder in protest of what it believes is illegal spying on U.S. communications. (Image via YouTube video screenshot)

It is similar in concept to the Where is Obama? map, which tries to crowd-source the president’s location at any given moment to turn the story about tracking NSA leaker Edward Snowden into “a story about tracking Obama.”
Although both ideas don’t necessarily expect to result in direct change, they are in the spirit of “civil protest,” as Flagger’s FAQs put it.The flagged words and a message to the NSA appear in the URLs you’re searching if Flagger is turned on. (Image via YouTube video screenshot)
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